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Re: minor ARC casting question
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Re: minor ARC casting question


  • Subject: Re: minor ARC casting question
  • From: Matt Neuburg <email@hidden>
  • Date: Sun, 30 Oct 2011 09:05:12 -0700

On Sun, 30 Oct 2011 08:46:02 -0700, Kyle Sluder <email@hidden> said:
>On Oct 30, 2011, at 8:15 AM, Matt Neuburg <email@hidden> wrote:
>
>> And this is legal:
>>
>>    id ref = (id)[[UIImage imageNamed:@"boat.gif"] CGImage];
>>    self.view.layer.contents = ref;
>
>It's my understanding that this shouldn't compile under ARC.

Well, it does. Try it... It surprised me too.

Of course that could be a bug. And in that case the third case is also a bug, since we're casting to id and assigning to something typed as id (layer.contents).

But anyhow, that's exactly my question.

m.

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